Imagine that you have been working with an out-of-town venue for months primarily via telephone and email to plan a 3-day conference. You arrive on setup day to attend a pre-con meeting with your event manager. She invites you into
The April Eventures Newsletter is here, and it’s chock full of information for the DIY wedding planner or bride-to-be! ~ Considering an outdoor venue for your wedding? Here are a few things to think through before you do. ~ The tux shop forgets to
If you’ve ever played an organized sport, you’ve had a coach who utilized a playbook, a guide for the team that outlines the strategies that they will use to win the game. It will include a schedule for practices and
A large service corporation planned a customer event at a large hotel near their headquarters. Customers were flying in from all over the United States, and the event planning team had worked tirelessly on every detail. Then, two days before
Do you ever have trouble remembering things that need to be done? Do you struggle to arrive on time to appointments? Do you have difficulty maintaining focus on a single task long enough to finish it? Do you ever
The beginning of a new year is a time of strategic planning for many companies. Goals and projects are identified, budgets are established, teams are created and action plans are launched. Every project manager knows that their projects can only
Behind every successful event is someone who takes the time to establish goals, assemble a team, create an action plan, set a priority and deadline for each task in the plan, and then execute that plan with precision. This allows
If you’re like me, you’re already thinking about your calendar. I love this time of year when calendars and planners hit the shelves. Each year the selection grows as manufacturers try to help us find a way to organize the
Wedding planning can be a rewarding, exhausting, exhilarating, time-consuming, and joyous time. I know this to be true because my daughter was recently married in a beautiful ceremony at a vineyard in North Carolina, which provides some explanation as to
We’ve found an online event management software tool that we can’t wait to use at our next conference. It’s called EventInterface, and it is extremely easy and affordable! It will handle many of the mundane tasks formerly performed by our